greyheads

The 10:30 Mass was another "dead-end," with lots of middle-aged people and greyheads, though Watcher commented, "They have daughters."

Archive 2008-08-24 papabear 2008

And even the greyheads, who stood there like dark blue doves, nodded their heads and, twitching their grey moustaches, muttered softly, “That was well said.”

Taras Bulba 2003

Meanwhile there began to appear among the throng men who were respected for their prowess throughout all the Setch — old greyheads who had been leaders more than once.

Taras Bulba 2003

Now as to the peer review system itself: it is imperfect, of course, in very many different ways, but yet infinitely preferable to a system of adjudication by committees of wise old greyheads, most of whom are years out of date without realizing it and are equally unaware that advancing years may have quite seriously impaired their powers of judgment.

A Better Mouse Trap Bross, Irwin D.J. 1976

They grasped the actualities of the situation with a keenness and understanding which the greyheads did not have only twenty years ago.

The Freedom Charter and the United Nations 1955

And even the greyheads, who stood there like dark blue doves, nodded their heads and, twitching their grey moustaches, muttered softly, ` ` That was well said. ''

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

Meanwhile there began to appear among the throng men who were respected for their prowess throughout all the Setch -- old greyheads who had been leaders more than once.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

I saw some of these old greyheads shattered by our shells, dying grimly, with knitted brows and fiercely clenched jaws; saw some of their beardless boys sobbing their souls out as the life blood dyed the African heath.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

Some greyheads had been on the platform, urging prayer as the best means of averting the disease; but they offered this suggestion cautiously, as if afraid of eventually attracting to their heads the blood of the community.

Love and Life Behind the Purdah 1901

Do you know, young lady, why it is that so many greyheads are holding clerk's jobs?

The Major Ralph Connor 1898